Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and successors: Land Drainage and Water Supply Divisions: Orders Defining Administrative Boundaries of Local Boards, Districts and Authorities, Maps and Plans

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Reference: MAF 77
Title: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and successors: Land Drainage and Water Supply Divisions: Orders Defining Administrative Boundaries of Local Boards, Districts and Authorities, Maps and Plans
Description:

Sealed copies of maps referred to in orders made by the ministers relating to the administrative areas of catchment boards, drainage districts, river boards, river authorities and water authorities, as well as maps relating to differential rating orders and exemption from rating orders made by drainage authorities. These maps are the definitive authority for their boundaries, but the series also includes some inherited maps relating to earlier land drainage legislation.
Date: 1854-1987
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 999 files, flat sheets and volumes
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2005 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

from 1966 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

There has been a national system of local drainage authorities since the Land Drainage Act 1930 established Catchment Boards (though two earlier conservancies, for the Thames and the Lee, survived), replaced in 1948 by River Boards (main arterial watercourses) and Internal Drainage Boards. The agriculture minister has had responsibility for the constitutions and boundaries of the various drainage authorities. In 1978 the Welsh Office took over from Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food responsibility for land drainage and water supply in Wales.

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